Two Birds With One Stone

by Jennifer Allison

At 2 a.m. I was awakened by my mother with these words"


"Jennifer, wake up. It is time for your daughter's 2 o'clock feeding."


Without hesitation I painfully sat up in my bed. Taking the offered bundle then, I opened my nightgown so my daughter could get to my breast.


My mind was racing. What was going on? When I went to bed just four hours before. I was an eighteen-year old boy.


My mother then explained what happened while I continued to feed my daughter.


"Remember the last time I had to pay for your girlfriend's abortion. I told you, if I had to pay for another. I would make you regret it. Two days ago Nancy. your new girlfriend told me about your child she was carrying.


I asked, "Why am I sitting here breast feeding a baby, feeling like I had been hit by a truck?
"That is your punishment. With the help of a store in the mall, you are now an unwed mother who just delivered a baby girl two days ago."


"Where did this baby come from?" I asked.


"You see I decided that your spoiled brat of a brother needed to start life over again. So I fixed two problems at one time.



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